35 Years Service in Transport Stationery

136,500 minutes!

That is 35 years of 15 minute Walk Around Checks

GB TachoPak, the Premier Supplier of Transport Industry Stationery, have been with you, every step of the way.

Love it or loathe it, the 15 minute walk around check is a necessary part of a drivers life, and we have been supplying the stationery to make that job as pain free as possible, for you for 35 years.

35 years of experience, knowledge and expertise goes into revising and updating all of the stationery you need to keep your business growing and you compliant.

There a three different types of 15 minute walk around check pad:

1. The LGV Drivers Defect Report Pad

For all classes of HGV vehicle, keeping your vehicles and drivers safe. and compliant. You can order yours here >>

The PSV Drivers Defect Report Pad

For all classes of PSV vehicle, keeping your coaches, buses and drivers safe and compliant.

You can order yours here >>

The VAN Drivers Defect Report Pad.

If you have a van you need to be filling out one of these every day and/or new driver.

You can order your Van Defect Report Pads Here >>

When GB TachoPak started providing stationery for the transport industry, in 1980 there was:

The new Vauxhall Astra replaced the Vauxhall Viva
British Leyland sold MG Cars to Aston Martin Lagonda
Alton Towers opened
Inflation rose to 21.8%
John Lennon was shot dead in New York
The average wage was £6000 pa, a litre of petrol cost 28p, a pint of beer cost 35p a loaf of bread 33p

VehoCheck: Daily road worthiness inspections

VehoCheck provides an efficient, cost effective solution for company drivers to conduct their daily road worthiness inspections, record the outcomes and ensure compliance in line with the DVSA guidelines.The VehoCheck dashboard for the transport manager offers in depth real-time reporting down to a granular level of vehicle inspections, common defects and the regularity of checks.

Information can be recalled instantly to satisfy any roadside authority inspection or depot visit.

For more information >>

Your FREE Guide to Digital Tachographs

Newly Updated …. GB Tachopak have a Free 5 page Guide to Digital Tachographs for you to download RIGHT NOW!! – It is in Adobe PDF format and answers many of your frequently asked questions about Digital Tachographs.

Your Digital Tachograph Questions are Answered

Find out what a Digital Tachograph is/does ~ what type of equipment and documents you need to consider and how to stay compliant with the road laws. Plus, information about and how to download and analyse Tachograph data smart cards.

» DOWNLOAD HERE (read online or download and print for later)
» Watch this Tachograph Simulator Demo‘

Smartanalysis: The Analogue & Digital Tachograph Analysis Software

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Are you tachograph compliant? Find out how Smartanalysis for Tachograph Charts can help you comply with Driver’s Hours and the Working Time Directive…

What is Smartanalysis?

Smartanalysis is the industry-leading tachograph analysis and compliance management software.
Smartanalysis is used by many of the UK’s leading transport operators to safeguard compliance with drivers’ hours and working time regulations and much more.
Smartanalysis eliminates the burden of managing and controlling the process for safeguarding your compliance, leaving you with more time to focus on your business.

How Smartanalysis works

Smartanalysis is a cloud based tachograph analysis software service that can be accessed securely wherever you have an internet connection. (FREE REGISTRATION HERE)

You send us your tachograph data. We store the data on our secure servers and make the data, analysis, reports and tools available for you to use on the Smartanalysis web site. We have over 100 standard reports for you to choose from and they can be sent to straight to your email whenever you need them.

Get started by creating your Smartanalysis account and we’ll also supply you with Smartanalysis ‘digital downloader’ software to install on a PC in each of your depots. We can also supply you with scanners, smartcard readers and download devices to transfer your analogue and digital tachograph data to Smartanalysis in our shop.

Key facts about Smartanalysis

It is used to analyse over 1,300,000 tachograph records every month.
It is deployed in over 12,000 locations throughout the UK and Europe by over 20,000 registered users.
6 out of the top 10 road transport companies by turnover (FY 2010) use Smartanalysis.
It is suitable for all HGV and PCV fleets – large and small.
It provides seamless analysis of both analogue and digital tachograph data.
It is cost effective. You only pay for the driver data you submit, no charge for VU downloads.
Your data is secure yet accessible any time, any place by authorised members of your staff.
Over 100 standard reports are available online or emailed to you.
Smartanalysis includes powerful tools to manage your infringements down.
It is fully supported and will ensure your compliance now and in the future by accommodating changes in legislation and tachograph hardware.

A New Generation of Tamper-proof Tachographs

Magnet-resistant tachographs must now be fitted to all newly registered vehicles that require a tachograph. The move is the latest phase of the European Commission programme to improve the recording and enforcement of driving time and rest periods.

Operators can continue to use existing digital or analogue equipment on vehicles registered before 1^st October 2012. For those registered afterwards, the new-generation tachographs are designed to be tamper-proof against cases of fraud that use simple magnets.

Future changes will also be seen with proposals to introduce a ‘smart’ tachograph by 2017-2018 and also enabling enforcement agencies to access information without stopping the vehicle.

» Digital Tachograph Card Readers

Tachograph Price & Order Form

GB Tachopak are pleased to announce the release of our new price list
valid from 1st February.
» Download and Print: (in PDF Format)

With the growing popularity and use of digital tachographs, we have reduced the price of some of our digital range including Digirolls which now start at just £4.20 for a pack of 3.

We are also delighted to have held the price for our most popular and traditional products: Analogue Tachograph Charts, Maintenance Pads and Defect Report Pads.

Please see our tachograph price list for our full range of products and new prices.

Easy Ways to Order Tachograph Products

Placing orders with GB Tachopak couldn’t be easier. You can place orders in many different ways. Regular customers may be eligible for a Credit Account, please contact us for advice.

Website: using SSL secure payments www.tachopak.co.uk
E-Mail: For existing account holders please e-mail your order to: sales @ tachopak.co.uk
Phone 01472 210102: Call our sale team.
Please have your credit card and order details ready.
Offline by Fax: 01472 210098

Print out and complete this order form/price list with your credit card details then fax your order to the above number. We despatch orders the same day if received before 3pm.

Prices exclude carriage and VAT | Orders over £50 are carriage free.

Personalised Products: For larger orders we are able to personalise many product lines with your company name, logo, etc. Please call for more details.

To place an order, please call our sales team on 01472 210102.

Smart Analysis: Free Android Apps for Smartphone

Smart Analysis of Tacho’ data gets smarter. According to “Transport Engineer” the Digital Tacho manufacturer, Stoneridge, have released two free Apps to assist transport operators and commercial drivers to monitor their driving. These apps are available to Android Smartphone users.

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Duo Mobile App can turn your smartphone into a second Duo display, providing a real-time overview of daily, weekly and monthly drive, break and rest times. Automatic countdowns to break or daily rest periods are aimed at helping drivers to plan their journeys ahead, and Stoneridge believes this facility will make fleets and drivers more efficient.

» Source
» GB Tachopak on Twitter / Facebook / Digital Tachograph Smart Analysis

SmartLicence Will Help to Keep You Compliant

GB Tachopak’s Smartanalysis service introduces “Smartlicence”

A comprehensive online tool for managing driving licences and safeguarding your transport company to comply with the regulations.

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SmartLicence helps Operators manage the driving licences of any member of staff driving on behalf of the company. It will help to safeguard compliance with regulations and provides evidence to the authorities that you have effective systems and processes in place to ensure employees are entitled to drive.

SmartLicence is free to use for existing users of Smartanalysis. You only pay for verifying details with DVLA. Tokens can be purchased in advance for the anticipated number of DVLA checks in a year and used when required.

SmartLicence is fully supported and help is available in the SmartLicence User Guide on the Smartanalysis website. Login on their website and look in Help > Support > User Guides.

New Euro “Smart Tachograph” … coming soon?

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 : Euro Ministers have reached a political agreement on the new regulation on the tachograph used in road transport. The general idea and new draft legislation, which will replace the 1985 tachograph regulation, is aimed at making fraud more difficult and to reduce the administrative burden by making full use of new technologies and introducing a number of new regulatory measures. As regards the use of technology, the current manual recording of the location of the vehicle will be replaced by automated recording through satellite positioning.

The “smart tachograph” will use new satellite-linked technology. It is hoped it will become mandatory probably in 2017 or 2018.

» Read more on EuroAlert.net

Digital Tachograph – Rules for drivers and operators

The UK.GOV website is a valuable resource for driving commercially in the UK. It that applies to you, you should visit this site frequently to keep yourself up-to-date on new rules and regulations that may affect your jobs or transport businesses.

This page : https://www.gov.uk/tachographs/overview is a good starting point for learning about Digital Tachograph usage and it’s legal rules. It includes PDF download guides and vital information on drivers hours, how to record them, store them and the smart analysis of tacho data.

GB Tachopak will be happy to advise you about reading digital tacho data and it’s smart analysis. We also have various digital devices for storing, reading and downloading Digital Tachograph data.

» UK Tachograph Users Blog

Proposed 90 day period for Tachograph Data Downloads

The Department for Transport planning to consult on tachograph data downloads…

According to “Commercial Motor” magazine website the UK Government want to extend the period allowed for Transport Operators to download Digital Tachograph data from 56 days to 90 days.

These proposed plans to extend the time required between tachograph data downloads is an effort to ease the regulatory burden on UK hauliers and operators and remove barriers for industry growth.

The current regulations state that operators must download tacho’ data from vehicle units at least every 56 days, but the government is proposing to increase this to 90 days.

The idea was proposed in a DfT Logistics Growth Review published last year, but was thought to have been originally suggested in the Red Tape Challenge earlier in 2011.

However, the Freight Transport Association said it wasn’t aware of members raising time limits as a problem.

For more information on storage, download and analysis of digital tachograph data and card readers please check out our free “Guide to Digital Tachographs” or visit or website.